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DØ Fact Sheet

DØ Fact Sheet. DØ is one of two large particle physics experiments at Fermilab. Its dimensions are 30 x 30 x 50’ and it weighs about 5,000 tons.

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DØ Fact Sheet

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  1. DØ Fact Sheet DØ is one of two large particle physics experiments at Fermilab. Its dimensions are 30 x 30 x 50’ and it weighs about 5,000 tons. The first meeting envisioning its design occurred at Stony Brook in 1983. Construction was completed in February 1992 and DØ took data from 1992 – 1996. The experiment was upgraded from 1996 – 2001 and has been running nearly continuously since. Technical Highlights Inner silicon detector, 700,000 channels Scintillating fiber tracker & preshower 100,000 channels Uranium/liquid argon calorimeter, 50,000 channels Muon system (wire chambers and scintillator), 70,000 channels Accomplishments > 250 papers & > 250 Ph.D. theses to date Discovery of the top quark. Observation of B-meson mixing that might shed light on the lack of observed antimatter in the universe. Discovered exotic baryons (Xb, Wb) Personnel Facts 550 scientists 150 graduate students 89 institutions (38 in the US) 18 countries Second largest national contingent: Russian Data Facts Inspects 1.7 million collisions/second Records ≈100 events/second Data flow is 20 Megabytes/second 300,000 giga bytes of data recorded/year 4.5 billion events recorded to date Future Will run through 2010 or longer Expect to increase current data set by 50 - 100% by fall of 2010 Can provide evidence for Higgs boson in the range of 115-125 GeV & 140-180 GeV (or rule out all expected masses.) Trivia DØ event displays were shown in the Keanu Reeves movie “Chain Reaction” Fictional physicist Larry Fleinhart joined “DØ team” in season 4 of TV show NUMB3RS. Current spokespersons: Dmitri Denisov (Fermilab) & Stefan Soldner-Rembold (University of Manchester) http://www-d0.fnal.gov/ Information valid as of August 2009.

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